From: Deni Auclair <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:13:48 +0000
Actually, they are available to the general public whenever there is a
citation in one of 100 news media and science blog outlets. If an
article is cited, anyone who reads the news release can view a
read-only version of the article.
Deni Auclair
Outsell, Inc.
[MOD QUESTION: And the media get them from where? From a Nature
Press Release, or? What proportion of articles would be found this
way?]
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 01:50:08 +0000
It¹s worth noting that (despite the slightly misleading title of
Nature¹s announcement) the articles are only being made "free to view²
in the sense that people who are subscribers may share links to the
read-only versions with non-subscribers. The articles aren¹t being
made viewable by members of the general public who have citations or
who find the articles on their own.
This certainly marks an increase in public access to Nature content,
but it¹s not as big an increase as it may seem at first glance.
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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library,
University of Utah [log in to unmask]
On 12/2/14, 5:06 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:01 AM
>
>Of possible interest; reactions vary about whether this is "enough."
>
>http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.164
>60
>
>Nature makes all articles free to view
>
>Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of
>its papers.
>
>"All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a
>proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied,
>printed or downloaded, the journal¹s publisher Macmillanannounced on 2
>December.... The content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48 other
>journals in Macmillan¹s Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division,
>including Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Nature Physics, marks an
>attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while
>preserving NPG¹s primary source of income ‹ the subscription fees
>libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles."
>
>See also the report in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
>
>http://chronicle.com/article/In-a-Move-Toward-Open-Access/150311/?cid=a
>t&u
>tm_source=at&utm_medium=en